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19 Dec 2011

Northdoor reveals its top IT predictions for 2012 for the SME market

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14 Oct 2011

Northdoor team slept out in London to raise fund for homeless children and young people

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4 Oct 2011

Cloud is not a ‘one size fits all’ solution for SMEs, experts at Northdoor advise

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22 Sept 2011

Lancashire Insurance Group chooses Northdoor's N-DEX Suite for its underwriting business in London and Bermuda

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6 Sept 2011

Jon Milward, Director of Managed and Support Services, put cloud computing into perspective for financial services companies in an interview with Lynn Strongin Dodds, Managing Editor of Best Execution Magazine

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1 Sept 2011

Insurance Day features Rob Stavrou's point of view on how cloud computing can give insurers greater IT control

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1 Sept 2011

Tony Russell joins Northdoor consultancy team

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26 July 2011

Jon Milward, Director of Managed and Support Services, discussed how IT outsourcing can help companies reduce costs while giving them the foundation for growth, on SourcingFocus.com, one of the leading outsourcing websites.

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15 July 2011

Northdoor joined the 2011 Standard Chartered Great City Race

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1 July 2011

Northdoor re-launches its data directory solution for Solvency II

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19 May 2011

SourcingFocus.com, one of the leading outsourcing websites, features an article by Jon Milward, Director of Managed and Support Services of Northdoor. In this article, Jon discussed options for managing legacy systems.

Read the article "Manging Legacy Systems"


13 May 2011

In an interview with the Royal Gazette, Rob Stavrou, Director of Consultancy of Northdoor, shared his view on how technology will be driving the development of re/insurance companies in the future as firms expand and move between jurisdictions. The Royal Gazette, a daily newspaper in Bermuda, covers the latest local and overseas news, as well as sport, business, lifestyle and opinion.

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28 April 2011

In an interview with the Financial Management magazine, Rob Stavrou, Director of Consultancy of Northdoor, discussed the risks of being over-reliant on Excel. Rob said, “Regulators want greater assurance about the integrity of the raw data and more transparency about how financial and management information is being crunched to produce the numbers. We have seen in the past couple of years that companies have woken up to the fact that spreadsheets cannot deliver that level of certainty.” Read more

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11 April 2011

Sourcingfocus.com, one of the leading outsourcing websites, features an article by Jon Milward, Director of Managed and Support Services of Northdoor. In this article, Jon offered tips on governing outsourcing relationships.

Read the article "Adding the Human Touch to Your Outsourcing Governance"


25 March 2011

David Ballard, CEO of Northdoor, offers top IT tips for start-up / spin-off businesses, in the Accountancy Age magazine, a leading finance and accountancy publication in the UK.

Read the article "Plan for IT Success”


23 March 2011

Sourcingfocus.com, one of the leading outsourcing websites, features an article by Jon Milward, Director of Managed and Support Services of Northdoor. In this article, Jon talked about the critical steps involved in assessing IT sourcing strategy.

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07 Mar 2011

Northdoor wins the 2011 ‘IBM Centre of Technical Excellence (CoTE)
Awards for Business Partners’

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04 Mar 2011

New Web Broker Portal from Northdoor will consolidate essential broker data in 'the cloud'

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28 Feb 2011

Sourcingfocus.com, one of the leading outsourcing websites, features an article by Jon Milward, Director of Managed and Support Services of Northdoor. In the article “Is cloud computing really the panacea we’ve been promised,” Jon argues that decisions on cloud computing should be driven by the business requirements, not by the availability of technology.

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08 Feb 2011

In an interview on mobile technology with the Post Magazine, Rob Stavrou, Northdoor’s Director of Consultancy, emphasized the importance of good design and functionality for mobile technology solutions for brokers. He said, “Brokers’ use of mobile technology is starting to happen, but it is critical they get the right products. … Bad design could kill a solution before it gets off the ground.”

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20 Jan 2011

Northdoor named as a finalist in the European IT Excellence Awards 2011

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10 Jan 2011

Three factors shaping insurance start-ups in 2011, says Northdoor

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16 Dec 2010

David Ballard, Chief Executive Officer of Northdoor, discusses the top 4 IT rules for start-ups and why cloud computing isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution on Fresh Business Thinking

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01 Dec 2010

Rob Stavrou, Northdoor’s director of consultancy, shares how companies can prepare for the data requirements of Solvency II on The Actuary.

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18 Nov 2010

The Post Magazine (18 November Issue) features the expert opinion from Rob Stavrou, Northdoor’s director of consultancy, on Solvency II. Rob argues that centralised data directories should form an integral part of implementing Solvency II, not only to fulfil regulatory requirements but to make business operations easier too.

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02 Nov 2010

In an interview with Professional Broking, Rob Stavrou, Northdoor's director of consultancy, discussed how Solvency II has impacted on the insurance industry and the adoption of cloud computing and virtualisation.

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25 Oct 2010

Solvency II a bigger risk to insurers than hurricanes, says new survey from Northdoor

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11 Oct 2010

Northdoor unveils Solvency II checklist

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07 Oct 2010

Rob Stavrou, Northdoor’s director of consultancy, in an interview with Insurance Day, urged the underwriters and brokers to embrace the technology and reap its full benefits.

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20 Sept 2010

Northdoor appoints David Ballard as CEO, Rob Stavrou as Director of Consultancy

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02 Aug 2010

NetIQ partners with Northdoor to offer complete security solutions for financial clients

Press Release


05 Nov 2009

Northdoor and Total Objects have partnered to offer a new underwriting tool to the London market

Post Online 


30 July 2009

The Lloyd's Exchange has taken steps to bring it in to the 21st Century

Post Magazine


30 Jun 2009

Northdoor announced that the newly launched W. R. Berkley Syndicate 1967, has selected Northdoor's N-DEX Suite of insurance underwriting and messaging solutions.


26 Jun 2009

Northdoor's N-DEX Suite has been implemented for W.R. Berkley, a Lloyd's Syndicate launched in June 2009.

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29 Oct 2008

There is another way: David Ballard offers a smart approach to modernising legacy software applications

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